Detailed Twitter info in JSON: an undocumented feature

Problem
Using a script, I wanted to figure out the number of my followers on Twitter. Here is my (mostly abandoned) Twitter page: https://twitter.com/szathmar . I didn’t want to use any API since I didn’t want to register for an API key so I went on the easy way: let’s scrape the necessary data out :) Digging in the HTML code I found the number of followers, but I also found a hidden treasure!

Solution
And the hidden treasure is a long json string that contains all kinds of information about a twitter user:

Here on the screenshot you can see just an extract, the json string is much longer. Fine, let’s get it!